Intention Framer
- Use when
- Someone said “we should run a workshop” and nobody said what for
- Output
- A one-page intention brief: project context, the outcome, decide or inform, the room, and the follow-up plan if the target isn't reached
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7 Claude Skills for Client Workshops
Skills that carry a workshop end to end, inside Claude: they frame the intention, design the agenda, prep the room and the team, capture what the room produces, and turn it into synthesis within 48 hours.
01What these skills are
A full workshop practice, as installable Claude skills
Between the framing, agenda math, the materials, the capture, the follow up, workshop preparation takes a lot of time. This pack takes that layer off your plate.
There is one rule the whole pack is built on: Claude designs and captures, humans facilitate.
No skill in this set runs the room, reads the room, or replaces the person standing in front of people. The craft stays yours; the overhead stops being yours.
All seven belong to one person: the facilitator. They work from one Claude Project with one pinned chat per workshop, so every session's history stays in one findable place.
Download all 7 skills
One zip: ready-to-install skill zips, readable SKILL.md files, and the 24-exercise bank. Free, no signup. The same seven skills live in our open repo, if you would rather read them before you install them.
Install in Claude Code
Two lines, and every skill in the pack loads at once.
/plugin marketplace add polar-bear-org/claude-skills /plugin install workshop-pack@polar-bear-skills
Using Claude on the web instead? Download the zip above and upload each skill from its install folder under Customize → Skills.
02The catalog
The 7 skills you get
The set follows the arc of a real workshop: before, in the room, after.
Before the room
Agenda Designer
- Use when
- The intention is clear and the session needs its shape
- Output
- Two artifacts in one file: a participant agenda ready to share, and a facilitator agenda with exercises, timings, group splits, and listening tasks, three pages max
Pre-Work Drafter
- Use when
- The agenda is agreed and people need to hear about it
- Output
- The invitation under 150 words, the optional pre-read built from your real project materials, the reminder, plus the facilitation team's emails, the T-1 sync, and the debrief hold
Run Sheet Builder
- Use when
- The workshop is Thursday and it needs to become runnable
- Output
- The facilitators pack: the segment-by-segment run sheet with wobble plans, worksheets and canvases carrying your workshop's real content, the room and tools plan, and the day checklists
In the room
Live Capturer
- Use when
- There's a break, or the room just emptied, and the walls are full
- Output
- Everything the room produced, transcribed in its own words, labeled by block and exercise, with ambiguities flagged while you can still check the wall
After
Synthesis Writer
- Use when
- The workshop happened and it needs to become real within 48 hours
- Output
- The participant follow-up under 250 words, and a synthesis that answers “did we get what we came for”, with every claim traceable to what the room actually said
Workshop Retro
- Use when
- The facilitation team has 15 minutes while the room is fresh
- Output
- A half-page retro note with the exercise learnings your next agenda will be designed with
03How to use it
Pick the workflow that matches your week
One pinned chat per workshop carries the whole arc, from the intention to the retro.
Design the session
A workshop is on the calendar and there is no agenda yet.
Capture and close
The session is running, or it ended less than 48 hours ago.
Learn into the next one
You are designing a new workshop and the last one taught you something.
04Setup guide
Install it in five minutes
In Claude Code · two lines
/plugin marketplace add polar-bear-org/claude-skills /plugin install workshop-pack@polar-bear-skills
In Claude.ai or Claude Desktop · seven clicks
Download the pack, then open Settings
Unzip the pack: its skills folder holds all 7 skills. In Claude, click your name at the bottom left, then Settings.
Open Skills and click Add
Under Customize, choose Skills. Click Add, then Upload a skill.
Drop in a skill file
Drag the skill's file into the box, or click to browse. You can add several at once.
Pick the skill from the pack
In the pack folder, open skills, then the skill you want, and select its SKILL.md — intention-framer is a good first one.
Check the preview and upload
Claude shows the skill's name and what it does. Click Upload.
Make sure it is switched on
The skill opens on its own page. Its toggle should be on.
Try it in a new chat
Type / and the skill's name, then say what you need.
Then try one
Run intention-framer on this workshop request: [paste it here]
Run agenda-designer on this workshop brief: [paste it here]
Run synthesis-writer on what the room produced: [paste the capture here]
Lantern for facilitators
Turn your workshop notes into a week of posts
Lantern drafts a week of posts from your notes and call transcripts, in your voice. You review them and publish the ones you like.
100 free credits, about ten posts. No card needed.
Try for free05Quick reference
Where to start
| Your situation | Skill to run |
|---|---|
| Someone booked a room and nobody knows what for | Intention Framer |
| A 3-hour session on Thursday with no shape yet | Agenda Designer |
| The agenda exists, the invite doesn't | Pre-Work Drafter |
| Two days out, time to get runnable | Run Sheet Builder |
| Lunch break, walls full of stickies | Live Capturer |
| The session was yesterday, send something today | Synthesis Writer |
| Fifteen minutes with the team after the close | Workshop Retro |
06Standards
The quality bar
Every skill in the pack holds the same standard, the one we hold when we run rooms ourselves:
07FAQ
Questions people ask
What is in the Workshop pack?
7 Claude skills for the facilitator: intention framing, agenda design, pre-work, the run sheet, live capture, the synthesis within 48 hours, and the retro. An exercise bank comes with the download.
How do I install these Claude skills?
In Claude Code, two lines install all 7 at once. In Claude.ai or Claude Desktop, download the zip, open Settings, Skills, Add, and upload the skills you want. Either way it takes about five minutes.
Do I need Claude Code to use them?
No. The skills work in Claude.ai, Claude Desktop and Claude Code. In the app you upload them yourself; in Claude Code one command installs the whole pack.
Do the skills work with ChatGPT or other assistants?
They are built as Claude Skills, and installing them is a Claude feature. Each one is a plain Markdown file, so you can read it and reuse the method elsewhere, but it will not load and trigger by itself outside Claude.
Will Claude run the workshop for me?
No. Claude designs and captures, humans facilitate. No skill runs the room or scripts the craft. Capture is a record of the work in the room's own words. It never notes who dominated or who went quiet.
Is the pack free?
Yes. It is free to use inside your company and in client work, and not for resale. There is no signup: the download and the install command are on this page.
08Who made this
Lantern, by Polar Bear
These skills were written by Polar Bear, a people ops consultancy that runs its own company on Claude. The pack is free, and the same skills are open on GitHub.
Lantern is Polar Bear's content workspace. It turns your notes, documents and call transcripts into drafts for LinkedIn and other networks. You review them and publish the ones you like.